National Affairs: The Answer Is Yes

In the marble-walled Senate caucus room, crystal chandeliers shimmered
in the kleig lights last week, and more than 500 spectators jammed
together to see the show. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was
beginning hearings on the North Atlantic Treaty and Secretary of State
Dean Acheson was the first witness. As photographers flashed and
popped, they noted that Acheson's mustache had been clipped down from
its usual pukka sahib proportions. Finally, Chairman Tom Connally
called a halt to their work with a cracker-barrel dictum. "You can
snap," rumbled Connally, "but you can't bulb!"